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The Eastern Columbia Building, also known as the Eastern Columbia Lofts, is a thirteen-story Claud Beelman designed Art Deco building located at 849 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on September 12, 1930 after just nine months of construction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eastern Columbia Lofts )〕 It was built at a cost of $1.25-million as the new headquarters and 39th store for the Eastern Outfitting Company and the Columbia Outfitting Company, furniture and clothing stores founded by Adolph Sieroty and family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eastern Columbia Building )〕〔Los Angeles Times. (Condos Planned for Art Deco Landmark )〕 At the time of construction, the City of Los Angeles enforced a height limit of 150 feet, however the decorative clock tower was granted an exemption, allowing the clock a total height of 264 feet.〔Los Angeles Times. (An Art Deco Landmark Will Shine Once More as Urban Living Space )〕〔KCET. (L.A.'s Changing Skyline: A Brief History of Skyscrapers in the City of Angels )〕〔Dornsife - University of Southern California. (Downtown Los Angeles Walking Tour - Eastern Columbia Building )〕 The edifice is easily spotted from the Interstate 10 - Santa Monica Freeway, as well as many other sections of downtown, due to its bright "melting turquoise"〔 terra cotta tiles〔Los Angeles Times. (Searching for the Age of Terra Cotta )〕 and trademark four-sided clock tower, emblazoned with the word "EASTERN" in bright white neon on each face of the clock.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CityDig: Eastern Outfitting and Downtown’s Turquoise Gem )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1929 Landmark Recommended for Historic-Monument Status )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Councilmember Huizar’s Bringing Back Broadway Initiative Welcomes Acne Retail )〕 The building is widely considered the greatest surviving example of Art Deco architecture in the city (Jose Huizar)〔Jose Huizar - Councilmember District 14, City of Los Angeles. (Acne Studios Eastern Columbia Building in Downtown L.A. now open )〕 following the 1969 destruction of Richfield Tower.〔 It is one of the city's most photographed structures〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eastern Columbia )〕 and a world-renowned Art Deco landmark.〔GlamAmor. (Out & About--Art Deco Icon Eastern Columbia Building in Downtown Los Angeles )〕 It has been characterized as the "benchmark of deco buildings in LA"〔(LA Stories: Photographer Zane W. Levitt's Tour of Awesome Architecture in the City of Angels )〕〔Pacific Coast Architecture Database - University of Washington. (Eastern Columbia Outfitting Company, Flagship Store #2, Los Angeles, CA (1929-1930) )〕 and "one of the great grand dames of Art Deco Streamline Moderne in Los Angeles."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Return of a Treasure )〕 Historian Robert Winter called the building "a shining example of Southern California's golden age of architecture."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=One landmark, four visions )〕 Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Hawthorne declared it "one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the city..."〔 Past president of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles, Rory Cunningham, referred to the building as "one of the premier Deco buildings in the country."〔 Ken Bernstein, director of the Office of Historic Resources for the City Planning Department, has stated that "The Eastern Columbia Building is unquestionably one of the signature Art Deco buildings in all of Los Angeles"〔 and he selected it as one of the city's most beautiful buildings.〔TimeOut. (LA architecture experts pick the city's most beautiful buildings )〕 The Eastern Columbia is lovingly referred to as the "Jewel of Downtown" and the "Art Deco Jewel of the West."〔Highbeam Business. (Killefer Flammang Architects, KOR Group Converts Landmark into Multifamily Complex. )〕〔LA Observed. (Preservation awards list )〕 On June 23, 2005, the long-defunct clock tower was reactivated in a ceremony with city and preservation leaders to celebrate the building's 75th anniversary.〔Los Angeles Downtown News. (It's About Time )〕〔Los Angeles Downtown News. (Eastern Columbia Officials to Restart the Clock )〕 Developer KOR Group, in conjunction with Killefer Flammang Architects, completed a two-year $80-million renovation of the building in 2006, turning the property into 147 condominiums, with interior redesign completed by the firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Design〔〔〔Los Angeles Downtown News. (Art Deco Condos? KOR Pursues Eastern Columbia Building )〕〔Los Angeles Downtown News. (Opulence and Glamour In Downtown )〕〔Kimley Horn. (Eastern Columbia Building )〕〔Andrea Reider. (Eastern Columbia Building, Broadway Theater District, Downtown Los Angeles, March 2014 )〕 The project earned California Construction Magazine's Best Redevelopment in 2007, McGraw Hill’s Best Redevelopment of '07 Award, and the 2007 Multi-Housing News Adaptive Reuse Award.〔Killefer Flammang Architects. (Eastern Columbia )〕 The Eastern Columbia Lofts earned a 2008 Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award.〔 The building is a participant in the Mills Act Historic Property Contracts Program.〔Los Angeles Department of City Planning - Office of Historic Resources. (Mills Act Historical Property Contract Program )〕 ==Historic Core Neighborhood== The building sits in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, which is rich in historic architecture, and which has largely maintained its historic integrity, due in large part to hard fought preservation efforts,〔(Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources )〕〔(Los Angeles County Historic Preservation )〕〔(Los Angeles Conservancy )〕 the 1999 Adaptive Re-Use Ordinance,〔Los Angeles Department of City Planning - Office of Historic Resources. (Adaptive Reuse Ordinance )〕 and Coucilmember Jose Huizar's "Bringing Back Broadway" initiative.〔(Bringing Back Broadway )〕 The Eastern Columbia is surrounded by a wealth of historic buildings, with four designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments as immediate neighbors. Just across the street on Broadway is the restored 1926 Orpheum Theatre,〔Los Angeles Conservancy. (Orpheum Theatre and Loft Building )〕 and next to it sits the Claud Beelman designed 1930 Art Deco Ninth and Broadway Building.〔Los Angeles Conservancy. (Ninth and Broadway Building )〕 Across 9th Street, at the southeast corner of 9th and Hill Streets, sits the 1926 May Company Garage, which was one of the nation's first parking structures (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1001). Also across 9th Street is the 1916 Blackstone's Department Store (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 765).〔Los Angeles Conservancy. (Blackstone Department Store Building )〕 Across Hill Street sits the 1926 Coast Federal Savings Building (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 346). Directly to the north sits the 1906 Hamburger's/May Company Department Store (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 459), which is currently undergoing historic restoration.〔Los Angeles Conservancy. (Hamburger's/May Company Department Store )〕〔ABC7. (Downtown L.A.'s Broadway Trade Center to be revived to its original grandeur )〕 Only steps away is the 1927 United Artists Theater Building (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 523), which is now the Ace Hotel Los Angeles.〔Los Angeles Conservancy. (Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles and The Theatre at Ace Hotel )〕 Retail in and around the Eastern Columbia, located at the intersection of 9th Street & Broadway, has proliferated in recent years with the opening of Acne Studios, Oak NYC, Aesop, Tanner Goods, BNKR, Austere, A.P.C., and Urban Outfitters located in the Rialto Theater (Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 472).〔〔Fashionista. (Inside Downtown Los Angeles's Retail Boom )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eastern Columbia Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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